A
married couple named Martha (Maren
Jensen) and Jim (Douglas Barr) celebrate
their 1st anniversary by inheriting a
farmland by their family. But something
there isn't right. There is a religious
cult named the Hittites led by Isiah
Schmidt (Ernest Borgnine) who abuses his
people.
There is also a retarded fellow named
William Gluntz (Michael Berryman) who
torments the people there.
John sees that the name Incubus is
painted in his barn and he paints it
over.
One
late night John hears his own tractor go
off in his barn and checks to see what's
up. Then he is run over by it from a
mysterious killer.
Martha is shocked by this and it seems
that the cult seems to be watching her
plus there are also deadly and
frightening unknown forces occurring
especially when Martha's friends Lana
(Sharon Stone) and Martha (Susan Buckner)
arrive to spend time with her during her
mourning encountering nightmares,
spiders, snakes and other nasty
encounters.
Others
are being killed as well and the Hittites
are thinking that she is responsible
calling her the Incubus.
Martha then finds out a deadly secret on
her late husband and the Hittites.
Very creative look
on this one.
It really makes you wonder the going on's
at the farmland and it's very suspenseful
indeed.
The story is well paced and mysterious.
Very original and clever too.
If you haven't seen it I'd recommend you
do as you'll enjoy it if you love these
types of horror films that involves
poltergeists, crazed religious cult
fanatics and mysterious killers.
Watch the ending as it is the most
effective one throughout the whole story.
The acting is good
for it's time but nowadays it may seem
outdated. We have Battlestar
Galactica TV co-star Maren
Jensen as the lead actress who is
very passable in her role as the now
widowed wife experienceing her husband's
death which was effective.
There's also Sharon Stone in her
first co-starring role as one of Maren's
friends before she moved to be a big time
movie star.
Ernest Borgnine does a great job as
the intimidating and abusive preacher.
Maren
Jensen takes off her clothes to put
on a nightgown and her breasts and butt
are revealed. She is full nude with her
back turned while hopping in the bath.
Her breasts are almost revealed after she
throws on her bathrobe due to a
terrifying incident.
A womans
blouse is open while she is hurt on the
ground.
Nothing gruesome. Just
corpses and some blood.
This is one of my favourite
films that Wes Craven directed.
He knew how to make this one suspenseful
with the spiders crawling around Sharon
Stone's character and her freaking
out as well as having the mysterious
killer popping up when you don't expect
it.
Also while Maren Jenson is
taking a bath, her position is very
similar to Heather Langenkamps character
in A Nightmare On Elm Street
which Craven also directed.
Check out a scene where there's a movie
theatre that announces Summer of
Fear is showing which was a
TV-movie Craven directed as
well.
The music composed by James Horner
is similar to Craven's other films as
well as having a Friday the 13th
feel to it.
Rod
Stewart's classic "Maggie
May" is being played in a car when
two people are drving around in it on a
dirt road.
[first lines]
Narrator: In the rolling hills of
a sinful farm community, untouched by
time, a gruesome secret has been
protected for generations.
Fat
Boy: Father Isaiah said this place
was with the incubus! If he knew...
Sheriff:
I'll be damned if these guys don't eat
brimstones for breakfast!
Vicky
Anderson: [Holding a gun] Oh
well, it doesn't take an Einstein to pull
the trigger!
[In
reference to Martha's land]
Vicky Anderson: If I owned a piece
of property like this and I kicked the
bucket, my parents would start building
condos on it on the way home from the
funeral!
Martha
Schmidt: You want me to run just
because you can't find a killer?
Vicky
Anderson: What's an incubus?
Martha Schmidt: It's some kind of
demon that stalks the faithful in their
sleep, or just comes and takes you like a
beast!
Lana Marcus: Oh God!
William
Gluntz: INCUBUS! INCUBUS!
Vicky
Anderson: So who are these Hittites
anyway, Amish, or what?
Lana Marcus: No connection.
According to Martha, the Hittites make
the Amish look like swingers!
John
Schmidt: What is a time warp?
Vicky Anderson: That's when
someone from the twentieth century wakes
up, one morning, back in the eighteenth
century!
Vicky
Anderson: I feel like I've been in a
time warp. There's no jets, planes,
telephone polls, or power lines.
John Schmidt: What's a warp?
Vicky Anderson: That's when
someone from the twentieth century wakes
up one morning back in the eighteenth
century.
Martha
Schmidt: Touch me there again and
I'll scream!
Louisa
Stohler: I hope its a girl! Boys
ain't nothin but trouble!
Lana
Marcus: Hey, hows the champ?
Martha Schmidt: I'm fine! Vickys
done everything but inject me with
chicken soup!
Louisa
Stohler: Men around here's hopeless!
Faith
Stohler: I'm Faith. F-A-I-T-H, like
in believe.
Louisa
Stohler: I don't suppose the
sheriff's been much good.
Lana Marcus: No, as a matter of
fact all he does is tell us to get out.
Louisa Stohler: Well, I wouldn't
be surprised if he was a Hittite himself.
[Trying
to elicit the Incubus]
Melissa: Thou tell me thy name,
the date, and thy hour of coming out! I
command thee!
Jim
Schmidt: Already we're history!
Martha
Schmidt: His people? His people
turned their backs on him! YOU ordered
it!
[last
lines]
Narrator: The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend
out of the bottomless pit, and go into
perdition: and they that dwell on the
earth shall wonder.
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